Distance Learning & Multimedia Services Staff Meeting
Date: July 3, 2007
Room: 7-5
Attending: Chris, Andy, Judy, Slav, Bihn, Robert, Geoff, and Donna (virtually) Andy’s Items: Staff Meetings
Held on a monthly basis
Each meeting will have a volunteer scribe
There is a wiki for meeting minutes
Wiki defined: online collaborative document
From last meeting
Q: Were issues resolved from last meeting concerning equipment check-out?
A: (Judy) We will know more when summer is over and we have more traffic.
Summer Projects
· Chris and Donna are designing workshops on Office 2007 and Vista
We will use 7-5 as a training space
Workshops will be open to all staff, students, and faculty
They will take 30 minutes
Geoff will help with curriculum design
Donna confirmed enrollments for the Distance Learning projects site in Blackboard Distance Learning Newsletter
Employees will take turns writing entries for the newsletter
It will have an RSS feed
An article idea: a spotlight on multimedia equipment or software
A profile of an instructor, staff member or student
The comment piece of the blog will allows others to contribute and collaborate on the newsletter
Judy asked if the items could be categorized and Andy thought that was a great idea: it would allow users to track their own interests in the newsletter via subscription. Website Review
We need to review and critique our website. To this end, we can
Find student, staff and faculty volunteers
Create a survey
Elluminate Live
The department has purchased Elluminate to be used as a virtual classroom in Blackboard but also to be used as a training tool and for remote support. It is java based and should run on any computer. There is a list of tutorials for this application that can be found on the Distance Learning website. Judy’s Items: Archiving
Multimedia Services is assisting in converting archived books into a useable format. We need to explore some way to automate this process.
Action> send Andy an example Inventory
Judy will be conducting a basic inventory and hopefully will create more space. Andy: Unicorn
Our dept. will be taking the lead in moving the library from the old Horizon catalogue to the Unicorn catalogue. It includes built in book software that we will be able to use for checking out equipment.
Robert asked if it was bought with tech fees and Andy said “yes.” Judy: LRC Lab
Action> Judy will look into the possibility of re-keying some of the doors to address possible security issues with the new LRC Lab. This room is available to students, staff, and faculty for check-out like a study room.
Date: July 3, 2007
Room: 7-5
Attending: Chris, Andy, Judy, Slav, Bihn, Robert, Geoff, and Donna (virtually)
Andy’s Items:
Staff Meetings
- Held on a monthly basis
- Each meeting will have a volunteer scribe
- There is a wiki for meeting minutes
- Wiki defined: online collaborative document
From last meeting- Q: Were issues resolved from last meeting concerning equipment check-out?
- A: (Judy) We will know more when summer is over and we have more traffic.
Summer Projects· Chris and Donna are designing workshops on Office 2007 and Vista
- We will use 7-5 as a training space
- Workshops will be open to all staff, students, and faculty
- They will take 30 minutes
- Geoff will help with curriculum design
Donna confirmed enrollments for the Distance Learning projects site in BlackboardDistance Learning Newsletter
- Employees will take turns writing entries for the newsletter
- It will have an RSS feed
- An article idea: a spotlight on multimedia equipment or software
- A profile of an instructor, staff member or student
- The comment piece of the blog will allows others to contribute and collaborate on the newsletter
Judy asked if the items could be categorized and Andy thought that was a great idea: it would allow users to track their own interests in the newsletter via subscription.Website Review
We need to review and critique our website. To this end, we can
- Find student, staff and faculty volunteers
- Create a survey
Elluminate LiveThe department has purchased Elluminate to be used as a virtual classroom in Blackboard but also to be used as a training tool and for remote support. It is java based and should run on any computer. There is a list of tutorials for this application that can be found on the Distance Learning website.
Judy’s Items:
Archiving
Multimedia Services is assisting in converting archived books into a useable format. We need to explore some way to automate this process.
Action> send Andy an example
Inventory
Judy will be conducting a basic inventory and hopefully will create more space.
Andy:
Unicorn
Our dept. will be taking the lead in moving the library from the old Horizon catalogue to the Unicorn catalogue. It includes built in book software that we will be able to use for checking out equipment.
Robert asked if it was bought with tech fees and Andy said “yes.”
Judy:
LRC Lab
Action> Judy will look into the possibility of re-keying some of the doors to address possible security issues with the new LRC Lab. This room is available to students, staff, and faculty for check-out like a study room.
Meeting adjourned at 1:55